When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

What we invent, we become

You’re doing it again, ” he said.“Doing what?” I asked, wondering if I had done something wrong.“Melting my heart with your smile, ” he said.

You write in order to change the world.

Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?